The SME Challenge

Support and Knowledge Network

If you are running a small business, do you find yourself overwhelmed with day-to-day operations? Are you keeping up with the bewildering complexity of all your legal obligations – health and safety, employment law, pensions and so on?

Are you “managing your business” or just “surviving”? Do you have medium and long term objectives, eg to sell the business and enjoy life? Are you on track?


99.5% of all firms in the UK have less than 200 employees

98.0% have less than 50 employees


Research carried out by the Institute for Independent Business (IIB) amongst thousands of SMEs shows that Owners/MDs perceived some of their main problems to include:

• adequate funding

• profitability

• cash flow

• lack of time

• loss of original vision

• legislation

The SME Challenge

Larger companies are able to employ all the specialists they need – such as finance, legal, production, information technology, marketing and sales experts – to support their businesses. They benefit from an economy of scale which makes it easier for them to employ high quality specialists full time.

This kind of knowledge network is not available or financially viable for SMEs - OR IS IT?

MCH associates are able to offer the IIB's subsidised Business Support Scheme thereby providing their clients with assistance in the planning, design and implementation of any business related project.

Backed by the IIB's international network of many business advisors, MCH associates bring extensive funding resources, commercial knowledge and action-driven solutions to SMEs.
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